Ashes

WE’D HAVE TARGETED SKIPPER ROOT ANYWAY

by
The Cricket Paper Team
24 November 2017

Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting tells Joshua Peck that, as England’s best bat, Root was always in firing line

Leaders all: Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting,

with Alastair Cook and Joe Root,
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While Nathan Lyon will surely become more of a presence in the Ashes as Tests go into the fourth and fifth days, the off-spinner made sure his name was mentioned early with his comments made ahead of the Gabba opener.
Amid the whole range of trash talk, the often tight-lipped Lyon said it’d be good to get England skipper Joe Root dropped again afte...